CSS Neuse
The Neuse II Replica
Namesake: Neuse River
Builder: Howard and Ellis, Kinston, NC
Launched: November 1863
Commissioned: April 1864
Fate: Burned to prevent capture, March 1865
Status: Hull raised and on display in Kinston, North Carolina
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Characteristics
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Type: Albemarle-class ironclad ram
Length: 152 ft.
Beam: 34 ft.
Draft: 9 ft.
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CSS Neuse (Ironclad Gunboat)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No. 0000044
(https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/00000444)[1]
Added to NRHP: June 11, 2001
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Armament
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2 x 6.4-in. Brooke rifles
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Battles
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No Battles as it was burned to prevent capture, March 1865
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CSS Neuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Neuse. Accessed: 16 January 2026
Current, Richard N., ed. "Neuse." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p 1133
Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. p 275, 277-278, 291-292,
296, 337
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